Ian Gwynne

Worker's Playtime Ian Gwynne

In the early 1800s, Merthyr Tydfil was the industrial capital of Wales and fuelled the fires of the industrial revolution, not only by producing the iron that the world needed, but by being the birthplace of the red flag of rebellion and soldarity of the people. This story is not about the people who were forging the iron age, it is the story of the people who sought to profit from the people who flocked to this town to make a living in the slums that grew up around the furnaces